TechFlow Intelligence: Apple's Q4 revenue beats expectations but China region weak, Binance hacked for $6.3 billion with North Korean hackers confi

The FBI confirmed that North Korea-linked hacking group TraderTraitor was behind the $6.3 billion Binance theft, with stolen assets being converted to ETH and laundered through DeFi and instant exchange services. Binance saw $15.4 billion in net outflows over one week—exceeding the total holdings of Bybit or Bitfinex and half of OKX's holdings—as South Korean exchanges entered heightened security alert. The incident underscores infrastructure vulnerability across crypto markets, with the DTCC launching tokenized U.S. Treasury, ETF, and Russell 1000 stock settlement on the Canton network as traditional finance migrates on-chain. In traditional markets, Apple reported Q4 revenue of $114.48 billion with record iPhone sales and 47.9% gross margin, but China revenue of $17.54 billion missed expectations amid slowing services growth and high memory costs. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell over 3% intraday, with Marvell down 13%, Intel 8.7%, AMD 6.7%, and Micron 5.7%, while Palantir posted Q3 revenue of $2.31 billion, up 96% year-over-year, and raised full-year guidance as U.S. commercial revenue surged 148%.